Marge Piercy Quotes
Top 81 wise famous quotes and sayings by Marge Piercy
Marge Piercy Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Marge Piercy on Wise Famous Quotes.
Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.
I don't even remember what Mother and I quarreled about: it is a continual quarrel that began when I reached puberty.
The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.
Thinking about tracking ... Sometime in grade school, already your fate was settled, your social
class was established for the rest of your life.
class was established for the rest of your life.
When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.
She would not be robbed of her ability to support herself, to do good work in the world, justly, compassionately.
I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.
I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing.
Children always wanted their parents in situ, in stasis. The faster they changed, the more their parents should remain the same.
Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work.
Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.
It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles ... It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch; to love and let go again and again.
I don't apologize for being sexually adventurous. Why not? It was often fun. When it wasn't - I didn't continue what wasn't pleasant.
I like communicating with cats. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.
An new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.
This life is a war we are not yet
winning for our daughters' children.
Don't do your enemies' work for them.
Finish your own.
winning for our daughters' children.
Don't do your enemies' work for them.
Finish your own.
Good will starts out fat and sweet
as tub butter and turns slowly rancid.
It must be made again daily
if we want it fresh.
as tub butter and turns slowly rancid.
It must be made again daily
if we want it fresh.
Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.
The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals.
She felt pride and shame wash through her. Mala, the woman who acted. To thrust herself forward into the world.
Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.
Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.
We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.